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Great Britain.

Although this name was applied by the French at a very early period to distinguish it from “Little Britain,” the name of the western peninsular [146] projection of France, called by the Romans Amorica, it was seldom used on that island until the accession of James I. to the crown of England (1603), when the whole of the island, comprising England, Scotland, and Wales, was united under one sovereign. By the legislative union between England and Scotland in 1707, Great Britain became the legal title of the kingdom. The official style of the empire is now United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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